Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

Confidence is what makes you stand out.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.